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All of this work during the employment period at Sandia involved radiation exposure from different
inputs. The Sandia Health Physics group did the monitoring for the home base sites. Annual physicals
were required for all radiation workers at Sandia, but they were limited in scope. Urine analysis was
usually done but stool samples were never required. Chest X-rays and eye exams were the principal items
examined with these physicals. Film badges were required for all workers in the Reactor Division.

After this period at Sandia I worked at Ames Laboratory until in 1996. A heavy water
cooled reactor was assembled and systems were functionally tested during the early part of this work
period. 1 was sent to the fuel fabrication facility to
The reactor began operations in 1965 with the initial criticality, and operated for 12 years after that.
Following initial operation the design. fabrication. testing and installation of experimental equipment at
the reactor beam ports was done.
always required my assistance. Control rods were removed trom the

reactor by remote tools and transferred to the hot cell in shielding casks. Repairs were done remotely and
the control rods were returned to service in the reactor. D2O systems were opened and repaired as
required. During one of these operations I was opening a pipe flange which the reactor operators had not
properly isolated from the cooling loop and I got a face full of D2O loaded with tritium as a result. That
required a complete decontamination including a shower and nasal swipes followed by urinalysis to
document exposure. All work done during the period of reactor operations were accomplished by the
engineers, technicians and Health Physics personne! working side by side.

from the Health Physics group can verify that work experience.

‘ork at Ames continued after the reactor was shut down. I was the in charge of all activities
that were required for decommissioning. This involved the disassembly of experiments used around the
reactor, the removal of all of the biological shielding, the dismantling of the reactor containment and
cooling systems, underwater cutting of fuel elements and shipping. When the reactor was completely
decommissioned I was responsible for the cleanup and disposal of all the previously contaminated sites
used by Ames Laboratory during the Manhattan project and subsequent programs like the thorium project
done attér WW II.” This required excavations of radioactive material in waste sites used in the early

“Operations at the Laboratory. These waste sites included the debris left from burning all of the building
and equipment from Little Ankeny where the uranium was produced. Another chemical waste site from
these activities was also excavated and removed. A thorium release to the City sewer system in the
1950's resulted in contamination of the City sewage treatment sludge beds which was also cleaned up and
shipped to a DOE burial site. The contamination in Wilhelm Hall from fume hood work and the
ventilation system was identified by working with the Health Physics group to find the contaminated
areas which were Subsequently removed by the Facilities Service technicians. The monitoring by Health
Physics personnel was Tigorous and recorded for reference, and should be available to verify my
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Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185,

PRIVATE
August 12, 1994

Ames Laboratory/USDOE
Environment, Safety & Health
115 Spedding Hall

Ames, Iowa 50011

Subj: Report of Radiation Dose Information
Dear
We have received your radiation dose history request for
+ We have data for the time

periods 1/57 to /61. The following information is
provided in response to your inquiry.

RECORD OF OCCUPATIONAL RADIATION DOSE RECORD
RECEIVED AT SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES

++++ EXTERNAL DOSIMETRY (rem) ++++

Led = 9 — CUMULATIVE (TOTAL)
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BODY
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EXTREMITY
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Bioassay Assigned
Isotope Sample Date Analysis Date Radiation Dose
ok -—*

* A double dash (--) indicates no dosimetry was performed.

If you have any questions regarding this information, please
contact our office on 844-6990.

Sincerely,

Dann C. Ward, 7715
Radiation Protection Measurements

BIS:7715

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our Radiation Safety Officer looked at this and provided comments. I agree that
has had significant exposure potential, especially with his work prior to his

woeee nee: » appointment. I suggest that you and try to reconstruct his work
assignment and establish a more quantitative picture of his activities, not just frequent”
but more like “approximately 200 times", etc. Also does remember the names of his
coworkers and can he re-establish contact with them? Mavbe you have thought of all of these
approaches, and I'l] keep thinking of ways to help and your efforts.

take care.

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After reviewing the data provided by it is my opinion that there is not enough
information to accurately assess the applicant's risk. Granted it is apparent, if the data
is correct, that was exposed to levels of radiation that would concern me. There

are gaps in the data. According to the claimant no monitoring was conduct in the laboratory.
Also how often did he visit ground zero and to what proximity, time wise to the detonation
did he visit ground zero. These are just a few of the gaps I can see initially looking at
the email

below and the data. I also spoke with the Iowa State University

Radiation Safety Section and they too conferred that the data is significant but may take
some assuming to reach any credible calculated risk.

» fyi - please take a look at this. > > > ------- Forwarded message
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Thu, 14 May 2@@9 15:12:44 -@500 > Subject: FW: NTS exposures and the SEC
requirement > >
could you please look over my email below regarding >I

would like to know how to interpret the enclosed rad monitoring data and whether it looks to
be sufficient to calculate exposures and risks as I have described below from his work

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I am the
In that time I interacted

with : the Laboratory's reactor and worked with him as part of his post-
reactor responsibilities. is a hands-on manager, and as such would have been
exposed to many of the same hazards as his employees during operation and decommissioning of
the reactor, remediation of inactive waste sites, and remodeling and remediation of thorium
and uranium processing facilities at the Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University’s
Manhattan Project facilities. For claim to be excluded from an SEC due to his
classification as an engineer is inappropriate and certainly not in tune with the spirit and
objective of the government's compensation program. The idea that as an
engineer, would not be subjected to the same hazards associated with activities at the NTS is
totally off base. duties as a young junior engineer would be working side-by-
side with the technicians at the “ground zero" hazards zone. Therefore, his functional job
assignments and duties, and the subsequent exposures are the same as those of the
technicians, and for the purpose of the SEC inclusion criteria his functional job title
should be considered to be that of a technician.

wrote:

FYI an email regarding sxposures at NTS from the from
that era

Good Morning Dr.

I had never been privy to what job involved up at NTS. My thoughts on
workers being sent up and “burned out" during 2 calendar quarters does not apply to this
case.

I had never discussed his work responsibilities at Sandia and the NTS. The 25 day
requirement being applied to the NTS is very much an error. NO ONE would have been required
to work at or near ground zero that close to a shot for 25@ days!. REGULATIONS WOULD HAVE
PREVENTED THEM FROM RECEIVING THIS MUCH RADIATION EXPOSURE. They might have job
responsibilities that would have placed them at other less active and contaminated places at
the site. But in cases such as just think how many blast tests you would have to

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From: LOTE FRON  _ .
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Subject:

I started to compose a note to you yesterday morning about my work with radiation and
contamination. The basic thrust of my note would have been to focus on the contaminated
sites we cleaned up after the research reactor was shutdown here at the end of 1978. At that
time many of the contaminated sites around the campus and the City of Ames were stil not
surveyed or monitored for radioactivity. As I was the engineer in charge of the reactor
decommissioning and our helath physics crew and I had gained hands-on experience with site
cleanup and disposal of contaminated spoils we were selected to continue the cleanup of sites
left over from as far back as the Manhattan Project work done here in Ames. We spent the
early part of the 198@'s doing the surveys of all of the known sites and surveyed other
"suspect" sites here with instructions that we were to continue with decontamination and
disposal of all refuse materials from any contaminated sites. In that sense we were the
experts for doing this work, and I was placed in charge of all of this work. This included
the work with thorium contamination in Wilhelm Hall, the contamination in the work areas of
the ISU Chemistry building, the burial site for waste from the "Little Ankeny" structure, the
City sewage treatment plant site which had been contaminated by a thorium release from Ames
Lab, and surveys of other sites that were reported to be contaminated. We worked as a team
to monitor, remove waste, place materials in trucks lined with plastic sheeting, and final
shipping for disposal of the radioactive waste to DOE disposal sites in Utah and Idaho. As

stated in an earlier note to you I was a hands-on-manager that worked directly
with the other members of our crew, getting in the dirt when necessary to sample, loading the
trucks and covering the loads for shipment and so on. I would receive exposures right along
with the other workers to complete this job which was done over several years. On the
administrative side I was in charge of all public meetings to disseminate information and
answer questions from the public, worked with the Iowa DNR to meet their requirementw and
provide all of the data required for their agency to release these sites as "clean" and ready
for any use. In that role I was the supervisor of the work, even though it does not fall in
the time limits specified in the legislation that John Vance refers to in his note to you on
1/08/2018.

But then I got a phone call yesterday from a person in NIOSH who identified herself as
Denise, as I remember, She said she had been working on my claim and was sure that she knew
away to get the claim settled and a payment sent to me. She briefly described how she would
phrase my work at the NTS and the sample analysis we did subsequently in our labs at Sandia.
She told me I did not have to do anything right now, but wait until after she has a chance to
talk with you on the phone and describe her plans for settlement of this claim. She said she
knew you very well and knew of all of the work you have done for me on this claim. So with
that information I have done nothing more to settle my claim as you had been suggesting to
me. Denise was very convincing with what she described to me, and suggested that I wait
until I hear from you again before I do anything. So now I am in that mode and will wait for
some contact from you or her before I proceed to contact anyone else.

Thanks again,


SANDIA CORPORATION
SANDIA BASE, ALBUQUERQUE, N, M.

July 22, 196k

I owa State University -
Ames, Iowa

Attention:
Dear Sir:

The occupational radiation exposure received by |
during his employment at Sandia Corporation is as follows:

Date of employment: 57 to ~62
Sandia employment E-number:
External whole body exposure: 5,26 Rem


From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:

Good Morning

I had never been privy to what job involved up at NTS. My thoughts on workers
being sent up and “burned out" during 2 calendar quarters does not apply to this case.

I had never discussed his work responsibilities at Sandia and the NTS. The 25 day
requirement being applied to the NTS is very much an error. NO ONE would have been required
to work at or near ground zero that close to a shot for 25@ days!. REGULATIONS WOULD HAVE
PREVENTED THEM FROM RECEIVING THIS MUCH RADIATION EXPOSURE. They might have job
responsibilities that would have placed them at other less active and contaminated places at
the site. But in cases such as just think how many blast tests you would have to
have participated in to meet the 25@ day requirement. I seriously doubt that many nuclear
blast tests were conducted in the time frame addressed in the SEC recently created for these

workers. (Jan 51-Dec 1962 )

I agree with your acute analysis that he was essentially removing samples and objects FROM
the NTS and essentially TAKING the NTS back to his Sandia Lab.

Thank you for your help.



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After the detonation an NTS lead crew went into ground zero and found the large steel
billets. A team of us from Sandia then went to the site probably within a month after the
detonation to retrieve the samples. The Health Physics team told us the general radiation
field at the ground zero area was about 25 R/hr.

The weather was hot so this might give a better date for these tasks. We went to a temporary
base station located about 1/4 mile from ground zero, to suit up for sample retrieval. We
removed our street clothes and suited up with double coveralls, booties, surgical caps, and
wore carbon canister respirators. Our wrists and ankles were taped to keep dust and debris
out. We wore film badges and pocket dosimeters. We moved as rapidly as we could from the
base camp, on foot, to the ground zero area. We removed the steel discs with some removal
tools we had devised to create impact while we pulled on the disc removal rods. Our crew was

» me and another technician, whose name I do not remember. would read
his pocket dosimeter to tell us when we had received about 1 R of exposure and we exited the
area as rapidly as we could on foot, carrying the discs we recovered with us. The elapsed
time for our work in the ground zero area was probably about 3@ minutes from leaving the base
to the return. The HP's read our pocket dosimeters and we removed our clothes and dressed in
our street clothes again. We did not shower and no nasal swabs or urine samples were taken
that I remember. The NTS health physicists kept our dosimeters and film badges and we
returned to Las Vegas. The 1R of exposure was the daily limit set for us at the site. We
would return the next morning and retrieve as many samples as we could while getting the 1R
exposure again in the short time, return to Vegas and then return for a third day to repeat
the sample recovery. This gave us a total of about 3R which was the quarterly dose limit set
for us at that time. We then returned to Albuquerque. The samples, in the discs, were
shipped to Sandia where we did the examinations of samples in the lab.

At the start of the next calendar quarter we returned to recover as many samples as we could
within a 2R limit on exposures which gave us a 5R accumulated dose limit, the maximum allowed
for a yearly exposure. The sample handling and examination in the lab was monitored by HP's
at Sandia. When this assignment was completed I returned to my engineering duties in the
reactor division. The crew at NTS was only » Me and the unnamed technician. The
reactor section at Sandia was supervised by who now lives in retirement in Texas.
I talked to him on the phone last fall, before Christmas, and his phone number then was

. He remembered the work we did at NTS very well. The rest of the staff I
worked with at Sandia, . oo ~~ ~  * “"" and another technician, are
all deceased.

This is the best reconstruction I can offer from memory. If it is useful you can certainly
chara it with nthars for evaluation or verification.


From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:

You requested more information on my work exposures at the NTS in your note of May 20th,
2009. My recounting of those workdays is all from memory as I think you already realize, but
I will be as complete as I can in giving this account.

I went to work at Sandia in _ 1957 in the Radiation Division where was the
Division Chief. was the Section Chief of the reactor section and was in that
position as long as I was employed there. My employment ended in 1962 when I went to

Ames Lab as an engineer in the Reactor Division.

The first year or two at Sandia was spent in the design and construction oversight of the
Sandia Engineering Reactor Facility, SERF. Probably in the year 1958 or maybe even 1959
several of us were assigned to the group effort determining fireball temperatures of a
nuclear detonation. was the metallurgist who led this effort with

another metalurgist, as his assistant. knew about the temperature transition
between the beta and alpha phase of brass and decided this would be a good way to record the
transition and with thermal heat transfer calculations make an estimate of the exposure
temperature on the face of a sample.

The phase change from the alpha to the beta phase is very distinct and occurs in a very
narrow temperature band. If a sample like a 1/4 inch rod was quenched by a surrounding metal
block, the location or position of the phase change would be caused by the temperature/time
exposure the sample received on the exposed face. This leads to thermodynamic calculations
using the specific heat of the brass sample to correlate the distance from the exposed face
to the phase change. Another way of looking at this is to relate the heat input to the
sample face (in BTU/hour for example) to the temperature within the sample at the location of
the phase change (measured on a metallurgical microscope). Since the high speed photos of
the fireball temperature gave us the time factor for the equations, all we needed to
calculate the heat input was the temperature of the source (fireball). By calculating the
heat input with the time and temperature factors we could estimate the fireball temperature
by measuring the location of the phase change transition. This transition location in the
sample was easy to distinguish on the microscope.

The calibration of the samples was done at Sandia where we used a solar furnace to simulate
the fireball temperatures. With the factors of phase transition and time/temperature of
exposure we could estimate the apparent temperature of the nuclear detonation fireball. The
work led to a publication in a Solar Journal but I do not recall the name of this Journal.

This then led to the field work. Brass samples were prepared and tempered to get the
metallurgical phase of the sample uniform in the brass rod. Sample rods 1/4 inch in diameter
and about 1 inch long were set into steel discs which were mounted in large steel billets (as
quench and blast protection for the samples), and these were made for mounting on the legs of
the steel tower supporting the weapon. The detonation totally destroyed the steel tower and
allowed the large steel billets of about 8 inch diameter to be blasted onto the ground
surface and partially embed them in the sand desert floor. This is what we needed for sample
retrieval after the Fizeau shot. We had to locate the steel billets and then remove the
steel sample holder discs for return to Sandia. The brass samples were removed from the
discs, mounted in bakelite holders and ground and polished on a metallurgical lap for
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Dear Folks,

Enclosed is some follow up exposure information from a former Ames lab worker who
also worked at ground zero at the NTS Fizeau site and brought samples from ground
zero to his lab at Sandia. He is not being considered as eligible under the NTS SEC
as he did not spend 250 days at ground zero however I have tried to make the argument
that his exposures were likely very high, that his monitoring was insufficient for
developing credible POC's and that as he brought samples from ground zero to his lab
and ground them without monitoring or protection his situation should be reconsidered
under the SEC process.

I would ask each of you to please give this case your consideration and please give
me and _. . any feedback you can.

Thank you all, —.

From:

Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:48 PM
To: . woe, ~

Subject: NTS exposures

You requested more information on my work exposures at the NTS in your note of May
20th, 2009. My recounting of those workdays is all from memory as I think you
already realize, but I will be as complete as I can in giving this account.

I went to work at Sandia in July 1957 in the Radiation Division where was
the Division Chief. of the reactor section and was
in that position as long as I was employed there. My employment ended in 1962
when I went to Ames Lab as in the Reactor Division.

The first year or two at Sandia was spent in the design and construction oversight of
the Sandia Engineering Reactor Facility, SERF. Probably in the year 1958 or maybe
even 1959 several of us were assigned to the group effort determining fireball
temperatures of a nuclear detonation. was the metallurgist who led
this effort with , another metalurgist, as his assistant. knew about
the temperature transition between the beta and alpha phase of brass and decided this

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dosimeters and film badges and we returned to Las Vegas. The 1R of exposure was the
daily limit set for us at the site. We would return the next morning and retrieve as
many samples as we could while getting the 1R exposure again in the short time,
return to Vegas and then return for a third day to repeat the sample recovery. This
gave us a total of about 3R which was the quarterly dose limit set for us at that
time. We then returned to Albuquerque. The samples, in the discs, were shipped to
Sandia where we did the examinations of samples in the lab.

At the start of the next calendar quarter we returned to recover as many samples as
we could within a 2R limit on exposures which gave us a 5R accumulated dose limit,
the maximum allowed for a yearly exposure. The sample handling and examination in
the lab was monitored by HP's at Sandia. When this assignment was completed I
returned to my | duties in the reactor division. The crew at NTS was only
» me and the unnamed technician. The reactor section at Sandia was supervised
by who now lives in retirement in Texas. I talked to him on the phone last
fall, before Christmas, and his phone number then was . He
remembered the work we did at NTS very well. The rest of the staff I worked with at
Sandia, and another technician, are all

deceased.

This is the best reconstruction I can offer from memory. If it is useful you can
certainly share it with others for evaluation or verification.



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Brief summary for employment of Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, NM

Hired by Sandia into the Reactor Divisio 1957.
Left Sandia to take employment at Ames Laboratory on 1962

Sandia Corporation operated a testing organization to determine the effects of various environments on
nuclear weapons systems at Area 5 on Sandia base, near their Area 1 which was their headquarters, To
test the effects of nuclear radiation on systems a light water cooled reactor was built in Area 5 by the
Reactor Division whil. , was the head of the Reactor Group for
the entire time that I worked there. currently lives in Texas and can be reached by phone at

if verification of employment is required. |

While building the steady state reactor our group was also designing and constructing a pulsed reactor
facility to test the effects of very high intensity pulses of radiation of short duration on weapons systems.

I was in charge of the with as the group leader of this project.
All of the was done by me and the .

fabricated at Los Alamos, was done solely by me. The handling of
the ‘was very sensitive and only one employee could work on the

for nuclear safety reasons. The subsequent operation of the reactor was very successful and any required
required my direct involvement. The reactor was radioactive after the initial

operation.

Sandia was also trving to get an accurate estimate of fireball temperatures from weapon detonations done
in actual testing now deceased, was assigned to the Reactor Division as the
metallurgist studying the fireball temperatures. I worked directly with him in

that would subsequently be exposed to a fireball in the Fizeau test at the Nevada test site.
The were mounted into steel discs that would protect them from the shock of an explosion and
these were mounted in large billets of steel that would survive a detonation and could be recovered. The
billets were fastened to the steel tower that supported the weapon at a height of several hundred feet.

After the detonation the were recovered and analyzed. Several of us, including (now
deceased) as our crew chief, went to the test site and recovered the at ground zero. We were
required to wear coveralls, respirators, gloves and booties. Wrists and ankles were taped to keep dirt and
debris from contaminating us during recovery. We wore film badges and pocket dosimeters to measure
the exposure to radiation. The pocket dosimeters were read after each excursion into the ground zero area
to determine when we got a dose of 1 R, the exposure limit for a day. We could get this limit for a 3 day
period to get the limit of 3 R for a calendar quarter. This required us to quit and return for more samples
in a subsequent quarter. At that time 5 R was the limit for a year. As! recall we got an exposure of 1 R
in about 2 or 3 trips into the ground zero area in about 30 to 45 minutes of elapsed time. After each day’s
exposure was reached we would go to the base camp to undress and shower before leaving in street
clothes. We were never “washed down” to wash off contaminants including fission products before
changing clothes. I don’t remember if nose swabs were required or used. As I recall the dosimetry was
all handled by the Health Physics group at the test site. As I recall I had an accumulated dose of 5 R or
more from this test site work.

The were shipped back to Sandia base where we machined and polished them as necessary to
examine them on a metallurgical microscope. We also exposed in the 5 foot diameter
solar furnace at Sandia to make comparisons against the The results of this study were

published in a solar journal and used to predict the temperatures of short duration fireball environments.



would be a good way to record the transition and with thermal heat transfer
calculations make an estimate of the exposure temperature on the face of a sample.

The phase change from the alpha to the beta phase is very distinct and occurs in a
very narrow temperature band. If a sample like a 1/4 inch rod was quenched by a
surrounding metal block, the location or position of the phase change would be caused
by the temperature/time exposure the sample received on the exposed face. This Teads
to thermodynamic calculations using the specific heat of the brass sample to
correlate the distance from the exposed face to the phase change. Another way of
looking at this is to relate the heat input to the sample face Cin BTU/hour for
example) to the temperature within the sample at the location of the phase change
(measured on a metallurgical microscope). Since the high speed photos of the
fireball temperature gave us the time factor for the equations, all we needed to
calculate the heat input was the temperature of the source (fireball). By
catculating the heat input with the time and temperature factors we could estimate
the fireball temperature by measuring the location of the phase change transition.
This transition location in the sample was easy to distinguish on the microscope.

The calibration of the samples was done at Sandia where we used a solar furnace to
simulate the fireball] temperatures. With the factors of phase transition and
time/temperature of exposure we could estimate the apparent temperature of the
nuclear detonation fireball. The work led to a publication in a Solar Journal but I
do not recall the name of this Journal.

This then led to the field work. Brass samples were prepared and tempered to get the
metallurgical phase of the sample uniform in the brass rod. Sample rods 1/4 inch in
diameter and about 1 inch long were set into steel discs which were mounted in large
steel billets (as quench and blast protection for the samples), and these were made
for mounting on the legs of the steel tower supporting the weapon. The detonation
totally destroyed the steel tower and allowed the large steel billets of about 8 inch
diameter to be blasted onto the ground surface and partially embed them in the sand
desert floor. This is what we needed for sample retrieval after the Fizeau shot. We
had to locate the steel billets and then remove the steel sample holder discs for
return to Sandia. The brass samples were removed from the discs, mounted in bakelite
holders and ground and polished on a metallurgical lap for examination on the
microscope at Sandia.

After the detonation an NTS lead crew went into ground zero and found the large steel
bitlets. A team of us from Sandia then went to the site probably within a month
after the detonation to retrieve the samples. The Health Physics team told us the
general radiation field at the ground zero area was about 25 R/hr.

The weather was hot so this might give a better date for these tasks. We went to a
temporary base station located about 1/4 mile from ground zero, to suit up for sample
retrieval. We removed our street clothes and suited up with double coveralls,
booties, surgical caps, and wore carbon canister respirators. Our wrists and ankles
were taped to keep dust and debris out. We wore film badges and pocket dosimeters.
We moved as rapidly as we could from the base camp, on foot, to the ground zero area.
We removed the steel discs with some removal tools we had devised to create impact
while we pulled on the disc removal rods. Our crew was » me and another
technician, whose name I do not remember. would read his pocket dosimeter
to tell us when we had received about 1 R of exposure and we exited the area as
rapidly as we could on foot, carrying the discs we recovered with us. The elapsed
time for our work in the ground zero area was probably about 30 minutes from leaving
the base to the return. The HP's read our pocket dosimeters and we removed our
clothes and dressed in our street clothes again. We did not shower and no nasal
swabs or urine samples were taken that I remember. The NTS health physicists kept our

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